Steamboat Buffet Dinner and Bowling Competition

@Marina South
27 April 2006

The wildly popular Japanese TV serial starring heart throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and Hitomi Kuroki stirred up a bowling fever in Singapore after it was shown on TCS8 last year. And bowling fever had indeed hit APP with the Lifestyle Committee putting together a bowling competition to pit the best bowlers against one another. The battlefield was set at Marina South on 27th April 2006 at 8 pm.

Before the competition began, all the teams and their supporters filled their hungry tummies with a sumptuous dinner at Chong Pang Steamboat Buffet. After the satisfying dinner, the teams' morales were high and were raring to go.

To increase the excitment and the stakes of the competition, Varian Semiconductor was invited to join us and it fielded a team against 3 teams from APP. The contestants in the game were:

Team 1 : C.P Lee, Thomas Ang, George Choo, Chew Lay Wah, Shi Li

Team 2 : Lee Haw Kiat, Gary Wang, Tan Kok Wei, Eric Soh, Ng Wai Chye

Team 3 : Dudyala Nagaraju, Roy Koh, Anton Dieter Kraetz, Choo Kok Kwan, Hoong Lian Eng, Rudy

Team 4 (Varian) : Steven Chim, Loh Kher Chong, Yuen Chee Ming, Derric Kwong, Chia SK

Playing a total of 3 games with the first as a warm-up round, the teams competed based on the total best scores. Attractive prizes were allocated for the top two teams and the top three individual scorers. After a close fight, the results of the competition .....*Drum roll*:

Team competition:
Champion - Team 4 (Varian) with a total of 1364 points
1st Runner-up - Team 2 with a total of 1222 points

Individual results:
Champion: Rudy (Finally the APP flag can fly up high! You did us proud, dude!)
1st runner-up: Steven Chim (Varian)
2nd runner-up: Yuen Chee Ming (Varian)

Psss....Tittle Tattle of the day:
The most unexpected dark horse was Rudy. He was humble about his bowling skills before the competition, but yet blew off the competition with an amazing 341 points for 2 games. If only I had talent spotted him to join my team!!